Dead Celebrities Thread

[barrydidit]

94!

Private Eye will have something to say about that.

And in ten years someone in a dentists waiting room will be bored enough to read it.

[DoctorStrangelove]

James Drury, aka The Virginian: James Drury Dead: Star of 'The Virginian' Was 85 | Hollywood Reporter

Well known to those old enough to remember when Western TV series were shown in primetime on BBC1.

He was a baddie in "Ride the High Country" with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, directed S. Peckinpah.

[NotAllThere]

And in ten years someone in a dentists waiting room will be bored enough to read it.

No one is ever bored enough to read p94.

[vetran]

Nipper of the yard

Leonard 'Nipper' Read who put the Kray twins behind bars has died | Daily Mail Online

Scotland Yard detective Leonard 'Nipper' Read who famously put the notorious Kray twins behind bars dies aged 95

• Mr Read who was a Detective Superintendent in the Met Police died this morning
• A statement by the Met police following his death called the detective a legend
• East End mobsters the Krays were arrested in May 1968 by team led by Mr Read

bet he didn't think he would make it to this ripe old age!

[Scruff]

John Prine

Songwriter John Prine dead at 73 - music world pays tribute | Louder

Another great songwriter gone. Tuneful day WFH today.

[GhostofTarbera]

Dead Celebrities Thread

Human Centipede star Dieter Laser dies aged 78

Not a film to watch with tour mum

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[ladymuck]

Human Centipede star Dieter Laser dies aged 78

Not a film to watch with tour mum

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That was a grim film

[NickFitz]

John Conway, mathematician

Only link I can find at the moment is to Twitter.

[BrilloPad]

Stirling Moss

Sir Stirling Moss death: British racing legend dies aged 90 | The Independent

[BR14]

Stirling Moss

Sir Stirling Moss death: British racing legend dies aged 90 | The Independent

my first toy car was a vanwall, in BRG.